My name is LordAlex Leon, back in year 1998, I came across a nice little plug-in called Flash, little I knew this would completely change my career. Since that moment I primarily make a living at consulting and helping companies/startups deliver intelligent Rich Internet content and powerful Applications based on the Adobe Flash Platform. I founded my own consulting company LordAlex Works and enjoy speaking at many international conferences and events whenever I can.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Disabling ColdFusion 8 Developer Edition auto-start on Mac OSX Leopard
Is been a few weeks since I installed ColdFusion 8 Developer Edition in my MacBook Pro running Leopard. Recently I've started to noticed my laptop currently having only 2GB of RAM is been choking when opening a few apps. Taking a look at the Activity Monitor, I realized that I had enabled ColdFusion 8 to auto-start and this was grabbing a bit over 500MB of RAM right there, which is a little wasteful when not doing any CF8 development.The problem is that there is no apparent setting to disable this. I decided to run a search on Google and came a across a few ways of doing it. The best and cleanest option seems to be just going into your Macintosh HD/Library/StartupItems and delete the ColdFusion8 folder contents.
To enable the server again when needed simply go to Applications/ColdFusion8 > ColdFusionLauncher.app and Launch the server, when done you can shut it down with the same app.
Quite frankly I don't understand why this was not added as a check setting somewhere, but there you have it.
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